“HUNTING FOR HEMINGWAY” A DD MCGIL LITERATI MYSTERY BY DIANE GILBERT MADSEN

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 18, 2010 -- Diane Gilbert Madsen’s exciting new novel, HUNTING FOR HEMINGWAY, the second in the DD McGil Literati Mystery series, (Midnight Ink, Fall, 2010), poses the question what would happen if Ernest Hemingway’s long lost manuscripts were found? In 1922, when Hemingway’s wife traveled from Paris to meet him in Switzerland, a valise containing all of Hemingway’s earliest unpublished writings was stolen from her compartment at the train station. These manuscripts, missing nearly 90 years, would now have incalculable literary and monetary value.

Lead character DD McGil, a thirty-something English professor turned freelance insurance investigator, is thrust into the middle of a complex dilemma when Professor David Barnes, an old flame, shows up in Hemingway’s hometown claiming he has found the lost Hemingway manuscripts and is going to auction them off. Her client, American Insurance, has perhaps unwisely insured these manuscripts. Their CEO, Mitch King, hires DD to help authenticate them because she knew David Barnes at one time, she has formal training in literature, and most importantly, he is trying to get DD back into bed. When David is found dead and DD is found at the scene of the crime, she becomes the prime suspect and must protect herself. Who killed David Barnes? Was it the Insurance company, his University peers, or was it all just a hoax? And where are the lost manuscripts? Are they real or are they fake?

Employing her usual unconventional methods, DD tries to save herself from jail time, find the missing manuscripts for client American Insurance, and track down a murderer. As DD works her way through a maze of academic in-fighting, more murders ensue; and everyone from the Hemingway Trust to the City College scrambles to find the Hemingway manuscripts.

In the midst of the mayhem DD, helped by her well-known antiquarian friend Tom Joyce, tries to stay alive as she seeks to recover the valuable Hemingway documents, if genuine, or to prove they’re fakes. But someone has targeted her, and things come to a head in a thrilling climax at Graue Mill, an historic grist mill, at one time a stop on the Underground Railway.

The DD McGil Literati Mystery series is the innovation of author Diane Gilbert Madsen. A lover of mystery classics since her youth, each book in the Literati Mystery series is inspired by the lives and works of some of literature’s greatest writers. The series is set in Chicago, Illinois, and gives readers an intriguing and fun blend of mystery and history. In the first book, “A Cadger’s Curse” DD McGil must authenticate a rare Robert Burns treasure that her eccentric Aunt Elizabeth has come upon. Diane is currently writing the third book in the series, “The Conan Doyle Notes” in which a cryptic note is found in a very rare book collection that may well change the course of literary history.

About the author…

Diane Gilbert Madsen grew up enjoying Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and John Dickson Carr. Born and raised in Chicago, Diane attended the University of Chicago and received an MA in 17th century literature from Roosevelt University. A political who’s who, Diane has worked in Illinois government positions from deputy village clerk of Hemingway’s hometown to the prestigious position of Director of Economic Development for the State of Illinois, running the Department of Tourism and the Illinois Film Office among others. She has been cited in both the World Who’s Who of Women and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. She and her husband currently share their home with their two Japanese Chin dogs, Sugar and Spice, on the Cape Haze Peninsula in Southwest Florida. For more information, check out her website: www.DianeGilbertMadsen.com or her book video on YouTube: http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=hb3v3DfyXjg

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“HUNTING FOR HEMINGWAY” A DD McGil Literati Mystery
By Diane Gilbert Madsen
Midnight Ink
ISBN: 978-0-7387-1953-5
Trade, pp 278, $14.95
Ebook $9.99
September 1, 2010

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